Rail yard in Alliance, Nebraska

[mikeb2008]

I just happened to see this on Google maps:

http://tinyurl.com/yc7cbff

It's a satellite view of a pretty big rail yard... compared to the size of the town it is in.

Anyway, just thought I'd share.

 

[Larry]

Those big round blotches look like Crop Circles. LOL

 

[kjd]

Those big round blotches look like Crop Circles. LOL

They are crop circles!

 

[Irongrave]

its from the rotating water systems they use, center pivots I think they are called

 

[flyboy2610]

center pivots I think they are called

You are correct. And as people have found out, leaving your car parked in their path is a good way to get a crushed roof! The wheels are huge and the torque required to turn these things is immense. They don't care that your car is there!
http://rst.gsfc.nasa.gov/Sect3/originals/Fig3_12.gif

 

[Larry]

There's one of those sprinklers right down the road from me. Just never saw one from the air. It's for watering a sod field.

 

[tankist]

it seems there lots of coal on that yard